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Publisher
Harper
Language
English
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"Sarah Woodruff, on death row in Oregon for murdering her lover, John Finley, has appealed her case to the Supreme Court just when a prominent justice resigns, leaving a vacancy. Then, for no apparent reason, another justice is mysteriously attacked. Dana Cutler-one of the heroes from Margolin's bestselling Executive Privilege-is quietly called in to investigate. She looks for links between the Woodruff appeal and the ominous incidents in the justices'...
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 25
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Description
"The charges: explosive. Alex Cross has never been on the wrong side of the law -- until now. Charged with gunning down followers of his nemesis Gary Soneji in cold blood, Cross is being turned into the poster child for trigger-happy cops who think they're above the law. Cross knows it was self-defense. But will a jury see it that way? The evidence: shocking. As Cross fights for his professional life and his freedom, his former partner John Sampson...
Author
Series
Spero Lucas mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Spero Lucas has a new line of work. Since he returned home after serving in Iraq, he has been doing special investigations for a defense attorney.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
"Returning from William D. Pease's first novel, the much acclaimed Playing the Dozens, Eddie Nickles has just retired after twenty-five years as a Washington, D.C., homicide detective. He doesn't intend to do any freelance work, but when a mysterious businessman comes to his door offering Nickles a lot of money to find the street person who may have been responsible for a double murder in D.C., Eddie accepts the job. He is too good at it, and it almost...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Derek Strange and Terry Quinn are hired to find a fourteen-year-old girl who's run away from her home in the suburbs. Iit's easy for Strange and Quinn to learn that the girl is now working as a prostitute in one of D.C.'s most brutal neighborhoods. Getting her to leave is harder. The two ex-cops think they know this world- but nothing in their experience has prepared them for the vengeance of Worldwide Wilson, the ruthless operator whose territory...
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Derek Strange is black and successful. Terry Quinn is white and barely holding on. Now Strange has been hired to investigate a police shooting in which Quinn played a major role. For Strange, a savvy and careful man, the investigation goes against his style and instinct. For Terry Quinn, Strange's questions are a chance to absolve his conscience and shake out a little truth. But in a city that lives in the shadow of a nation's dream, neither man can...
7) The Spy
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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In 1908, a brilliant American battleship gun designer dies in a sensational apparent suicide. The man's grief-stricken daughter turns to the legendary Van Dorn Detective Agency to clear her father's name. Van Dorn puts his chief investigator on the case, and Isaac Bell soon realizes that the clues point not to suicide but to murder.
8) Hidden star
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Series
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English
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She couldn't remember a thing, not even who she was. But it was clear Bailey James was in trouble. Big trouble! And she desperately needed Cade Parris to help her live long enough to find out just what kind.
The moment the coolheaded private eye laid eyes on the fragile beauty, she almost had him forgetting who he was. If Bailey was a criminal, Cade would eat his P.I. license. But what was she doing with a satchel full
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Publisher
St. Martin Press
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
The body of a young black naval officer is found chained in the boiler of a mothballed battleship in Philadelphia. Naval investigators Dan Collins and Grace Snow discover a link to a hushed sex scandal involving a senior naval officer and a young lieutenant. The discovery puts both their lives in peril. By the author of The Edge of Honor.
10) The spy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
It is 1908, and the international tensions are mounting as the world plunges toward war. When a brilliant American battleship gun designer dies in an apparent suicide, the man's grief-stricken daughter turns to the Van Dorn Detective Agency to clear her father's name. Van Dorn puts his chief investigator on the case, and Isaac Bell soon realizes that the clues point to murder. When more suspicious deaths follow, it becomes clear that someone is orchestrating...
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Series
Language
English
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Ten years ago, Horace Blair fell in love with Carrie, the prosecutor during his DUI trial. After a torrid courtship, he persuaded her to marry him and to sign a pre-nuptial agreement guaranteeing her twenty million dollars if she remained faithful during the first ten years of their marriage. The week before their tenth anniversary, Carrie disappears and Horace is charged with her murder. Desperate to clear his name, the millionaire hires one of D.C.'s...
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
If someone in the pharmaceutical industry came upon a cheaper, non-addictive, and more effective painkiller, would he kill for it? Washington D.C. private detective Robert "Don't call me Bobby" Brixton, along with his mentors, attorneys Mac and Annabel Smith, discover that the answer is a resounding "Yes," as they try to help Jayla King, a medical researcher at a small D.C. pharmaceutical firm, carry on the work of her father. His experiments in the...
13) The Eighth Day
Author
Language
English
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Description
Private investigator Danny Cray is hired to discover who is behind a scheme to destroy the reputation of a notorious billionaire--an assignment that unexpectedly hurls him into a sinister world where nothing is what it seems.
14) The big blowdown
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
A novel on two immigrant boys growing up in 1940s Washington--their friendship, their loves and their crimes. One Greek, the other Italian, they are involved in collection work for loan sharks who prey on immigrants. By the author of Nick's Trip.
Author
Series
Capital crimes series volume 28
Publisher
Forge pubished by Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Laura is a young intern in Washington, D.C., working for handsome and likable Congressman Hal Gannon. Laura falls for the charming Gannon, but when she catches a stewardess at Gannon's apartment, she vows to destroy him. Private investigator Robert Brixton is a former cop who has also worked for the FBI. When Laura goes missing, Brixton is hired by Laura's family to gain insight into the case that the police might have missed. Brixton tracks down...
Author
Series
Peter Rena and Randi Brooks volume 4
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Billionaire entrepreneur and President of the U.S., David Traynor calls upon ruthless DC fixers Peter Rena and Randi Brooks, who must help him salvage American politics while dealing with cyberattacks and a world on the cusp of enormous change.
17) Soul circus
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A Washington, D.C., crime lord fights for his life in court while P.I. Derek Strange finds a woman whose testimony could mean death or freedom for the crime lord.
18) Crime song
Author
Series
Frank Marr novels volume 2
Publisher
Mullholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Frank Marr was a good cop with a bad habit, until his addiction to cocaine forced him into retirement from the D.C. police. Now barely making a living as a private investigator, he agrees to take on a family case as a favour for his aunt. Frank's surveillance confirms that his cousin Jeffrey is involved with a drugs operation. It seems small, until Frank's own home is burgled, leaving a body on the kitchen floor: Jeffrey. Frank's .38 revolver - the...
19) All my stars
Author
Publisher
Silhouette Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Captive star: M.J. O'Leary is used to punching first and asking questions later. So when bounty hunter Jack Dakota tries to arrest her for bail jumping, she doesn't go down easily. On the run from hired killers, M.J. refuses to talk about who's after her...or why she has a massive blue diamond hidden in her purse. M.J. and Jack are drawn to each other, despite their better judgment, but can Jack learn to trust M.J. when she has so many secrets?
Hidden...
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English
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When private detective Dana Cutler is hired by an attorney with powerful political connections, the assignment seems simple enough: follow a pretty college student named Charlotte Walsh and report on where she goes and whom she sees. But then the unexpected happens. One night, Cutler follows Walsh to a secret meeting with Christopher Farrington, the president of the United States. The following morning, Walsh's dead body shows up and Cutler has to...